“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
– Eleanor Roosevelt
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
(I’m pretty sure he meant, if you have a garden other people look after and prune and water)
– Sigmund Freud
– G.K. Chesterton
– Scott Brinker
– George R.R. Martin
– from Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
– From Bill Cunningham, New York
I love The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, and the character of Woland, who is basically the Devil though never explicitly referred to so. I always liked this speech of his about the place of evil in the grand scheme of things, and the way it’s inseparable from good:
You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow? Shadows are thrown by people and things. There’s the shadow of my sword, for instance. But shadows are also cast by trees and living things. Do you want to strip the whole globe by removing every tree and every creature to satisfy your fantasy of a bare world?